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by DSguru2B
Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:55 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Abnormal termination of job
Replies: 5
Views: 849

Welcome Aboard,
Reset the job and see if any message "From previous Run" pops up. Post your finds here.
by DSguru2B
Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:41 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: skip a job in sequencer
Replies: 4
Views: 1798

Get rid of Job2 from the stream :?
What is your requirment exactly. If you dont have to run Job2 then why is it even in the stream?
by DSguru2B
Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:04 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Plug-n stage does not have required stream inputs
Replies: 3
Views: 1316

Multiple posts wont help in more/different replies. Please delete your Duplicate post before anyone replies to it.
by DSguru2B
Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:50 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Application Error Designer closes
Replies: 22
Views: 5364

Would'nt that be something :wink:
by DSguru2B
Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:49 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Slowly changing Dimensions
Replies: 20
Views: 4648

I agree with you that triggers will slow down the process. But for a considerably large processing window, its a clean process. No change detection is required. The trigger takes care of that regardless of the data size. The historical load contains millions of records, but since its the first load,...
by DSguru2B
Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:30 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Application Error Designer closes
Replies: 22
Views: 5364

I put a footer note now. I get that all the time.
by DSguru2B
Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:27 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Slowly changing Dimensions
Replies: 20
Views: 4648

I prefer to write a trigger at the database end. This way all I need to do is insert the incoming record. If the same exists, the trigger will retire the previous one. But I am always fascinated with the bulk update theory.
by DSguru2B
Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:21 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Slowly changing Dimensions
Replies: 20
Views: 4648

Welcome Aboard See if the natural key exists. If it does, update the record with Current timestamp in end_date. Insert the new record with Current timestamp in begin_date and null in end_date. Do the same for all dimensions. This is the general way of doing it. Now if you have multiple records with ...
by DSguru2B
Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:18 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Job Freeze..
Replies: 17
Views: 3540

No corruption for doing multiple writes to a same hashed file. The corruption that your teammate encountered must be due to some other reason.
by DSguru2B
Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:57 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: reading a delimited file
Replies: 19
Views: 3357

Send a few records to peek stage and see if the values show up in the log.
by DSguru2B
Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:47 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: HOW TO RESTART THE JOB
Replies: 3
Views: 954

If your data volume is low, set the transaction size to 0. This way the data will be committed only after successful completion of the job.
Is this a server job or a px job?
by DSguru2B
Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:41 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: New file creation for Each time the job runs
Replies: 3
Views: 1080

Re-name the file after each run in after job sub-routine "ExecSh".

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mv /fully/qualified/path/of/abc.txt /fully/qualified/path/of/abc`date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S"`.txt 
by DSguru2B
Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:37 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: what is the exact difference between routine and transfroms?
Replies: 4
Views: 1396

A simple search would have turned out the answers.
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by DSguru2B
Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:28 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Cascading Lookups
Replies: 5
Views: 1281

The job type was marked as server and hence I went ahead with it. O well.

Moderator: Please delete this post.
by DSguru2B
Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:23 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Generating Surrogate Keys via hash functions
Replies: 20
Views: 6994

Likewise Craig. Stick to generation of running number.